Poker Leaderboard: All-Time CPPT Money List

The 2021 Card Player Poker Tour Venetian main event, won by Ezequiel ‘EZ’ Waigel, marked the tenth time that the CPPT has made its way to The Venetian Poker Room. The stop has consistently been one of the largest on the tour each season, thanks to huge turnouts and a higher buy-in than many other stops. As a result, players with success in CPPT Venetian events dominate the all-time money list for the tour. In fact, the entire top 10 is composed of players who have either won or otherwise had a big score at this stop.

Waigel earned $417,004 for defeating a field of 975 entries. This was his first-ever CPPT cash, but it alone was enough to catapult him into eighth place on this leaderboard.

Jon Turner remains number one, with his $737,858 being almost entirely comprised of two title runs in CPPT Venetian events. He overcame 537 entries in the 2016 $5,000 buy-in event to secure a career-best payday of $536,858. Roughly two-and-a-half years later he emerged victorious in the 2018 $3,500 buy-in event, outlasting 340 opponents to add another $201,000 to his totals.

Spanish poker pro Javier Gomez beat out a massive field of 688 entries to secure the top prize of $561,349 in the 2017 $5,000 buy-in event. Gomez has secured another couple cashes on the tour, bringing his total tour earnings to just a few hundred dollars shy of $600,000.

The following year’s $5,000 buy-in event drew 547 entries. Four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, three-time World Poker Tour champion, and 2015 Card Player Player of the Year award winner Anthony Zinno secured $466,670 as the champion. One of Zinno’s earliest breakout performances on the live circuit came when he finished fourth in the 2013 CPPT Venetian for $86,964. With $575,075 in total CPPT scores, Zinno is one of just four players to have cashed for more than half a million dollars on the tour.

​​Rounding out the list is European Poker Tour and WPT champion Andrey Pateychuk, who beat out a field of 564 entries in the 2019 $5,000 buy-in event to earn $547,777. It was the third-largest score of his career. With one other smaller cash in a CPPT Venetian main event, Pateychuk’s lifetime total now sits at ​​$558,782.